Re: xargs with functions

[Axel Beckert <abe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Ray,

On Mon, Nov 17, 2014 at 10:24:42AM -0800, Ray Andrews wrote:
> Is there a way to pass the functions forward every time automatically,
> so that I can:
> 
>     ls * | xargs l ,s

xargs is not from zsh but a binary (/usr/bin/xargs in my case) which
is called. And that binary likely calls 'exec "$@"' and not 'exec
$SHELL -c "$@"'

But zsh's zargs seems to support functions (but not aliases). Try this:

% autoload -U zargs
% zargs -- * -- l ,s

HTH

		Kind regards, Axel
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